How to break a custom loop into multiple pages?

  • Iva

    (@supersonicsquirrel)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m using the following code to display links to, well, all posts on a website.

    <?php $first = 0; //The first article to be displayed ?>

<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!--Post -->
<div class="post">
<h2 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><span class="arrow"></span></h2>
<ul>
<?php
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&offset=$first');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li><?php the_time('d/m/y') ?>: <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php endwhile; ?>

    …and it’s a good idea on websites that don’t have 2000+ articles, which doesn’t apply to mine. I was wondering what I should add to this loop in order to break it into pages (say, 50-100 items per page) and, in general, if there’s a way to override the number of shown posts for other types of archives as well.

    Thank you. ??

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  • Moderator keesiemeijer

    (@keesiemeijer)

    Try it with multiple loops [untested]:

    <?php
$the_query = new WP_Query('posts_per_page=1');
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
<div class="post">
<h2 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><span class="arrow"></span></h2>
<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('posts_per_page=50&offset=1&paged='.$paged); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
<ul>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!--Post -->
<li><?php the_time('d/m/y') ?>: <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

    Thread Starter Iva

    (@supersonicsquirrel)

    It works like a charm, thank you. ??

    Thread Starter Iva

    (@supersonicsquirrel)

    Actually, something’s wrong. It won’t show title of the page with the listing and the values all my pages pull from the db: last updated date and the edit link. Any idea…?

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